More accurately: because my bookshelf is where I store ideas. Similarly, or not, the title, "Not In Our Stars," goes back to the Middle Ages when I was an assistant mangler for WaldenBooks (a job and company that I enjoyed immensely). Whenever a book was not where it was supposed to have been displayed I would often misquote Shakespeare by saying, "The fault lies not in our stars, but on our shelves."
That may sound trivial, but imagine the horror in finding "The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough" (a book about yeast infections) among the cookbooks. And although I am a longtime fan of the band, I bristled upon finding "Hammers of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga" in the "Romance" section. Undoubtedly the most disturbing was finding an excellent book on dinosaurs sitting comfortably in the "Pets" section. It took every ounce of my willpower (I struggled with every fiber of my being!), but in the end I resisted the urge to flip to the chapter on house training.
"Tales from the Backside"? Well, I'm sure that's self-explanatory...
So, hopefully this all makes as little sense as it did before.
Oh, I was also told that I should have pictures in my blog to make it more "sexy". Tantalizing. A picture DOES say a thousand words, but I'm not sure I want to write that much. Oh, what the hay. Here's a horse...
Oh, the drama!
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